Florian runs the Education team at City Network, and helps people learn to use, understand, and deploy complex technology. He has worked exclusively with open source software since about 2002, and has been heavily involved in OpenStack and Ceph since early 2012, and in Open edX since 2015. He co-founded hastexo, an independent professional services company, and served there as CEO and Principal Consultant until its acquisition by City Network in October 2017.